I am currently developing a webbrowser named Phoenix Explorer and am wanting to add some IE RSS feed detection functionality to it. Iva already created the RSS feed reader but now i need to know how i can detect the RSS feeds a site has to offer ( like internet explorer ).

I am currently developing a webbrowser named Phoenix Explorer and am wanting to add some IE RSS feed detection functionality to it. Iva already created the RSS feed reader but now i need to know how i can detect the RSS feeds a site has to offer ( like internet explorer ).

You have to look for the following link tag:

<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS" href="http://...">

For more info take a look at http://www.rsswiz.com/rss-feed-autodiscovery/

What programming environment do you use?

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